Lesson Plans Food: Food Waste. 0000417115 00000 n 0000367078 00000 n Introduction This lesson plan supplements the TEDxManhattan video, and is designed to be integrated ina variety of learning settings, both educational and recreational. Children will be more likely to try new food when they grow it themselves. 0000131612 00000 n 0000419931 00000 n 0000423309 00000 n • Four Ways to Fight School Food Waste fact sheet – details practical approaches schools can take to reduce food waste (teachers can use these facts to augment the student brainstorming done in Step 3 of the lesson plan) • Additional Resources list on page 15 of this lesson plan • Preview the WWF Food Waste … %PDF-1.4 %���� It encourages learners to consider the time, energy and resources which are wasted when they waste food. 0000010546 00000 n 0000432915 00000 n The campaign was called Inglorious Fruits and Vegetablesand used a number of techniques to promote and implement their idea. 0000430987 00000 n These resources comprise a set of informative teacher notes (including suggested learning activities) that run alongside a Powerpoint presentation filled with images to facilitate learning. 0000369409 00000 n 0000252289 00000 n 0000420414 00000 n 0000430027 00000 n 0000255388 00000 n This unit is designed to teach students about food waste and ways they can help reduce it. ay6,=� �y�>�h�]�!� 0000436693 00000 n 0000432429 00000 n 0000407490 00000 n Lesson Plan. 0000411937 00000 n 0000366626 00000 n Lesson Plans Food: Food Waste. 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Around a billion people don't have enough food to eat, yet we throw away around a third of all the food produced. (Years 5, 9) FOOD WASTE 12. Click on an image to open the PDF of the Educational Unit. 0000432021 00000 n TammaraSoma Affiliation. 0000367698 00000 n 0000432507 00000 n 0000411859 00000 n Assign a meal time students will be looking at their food waste: lunch or dinner are highly recommended. 0000366716 00000 n 0000419516 00000 n 0000407013 00000 n 0000408443 00000 n 0000430586 00000 n 0000253046 00000 n 0000252378 00000 n To make this easier, you may ask the students to diagram the steps for a certain type of fruit or vegetable. 0000434367 00000 n Students will learn where different foods typically come from and calculate food miles for different modes of transportation. 0000430508 00000 n 0000433397 00000 n 0000412802 00000 n 0000422515 00000 n 0000311253 00000 n 0000432993 00000 n The majority of the environmental impact of food waste is not from the food rotting in the refrigerator or spoiling in a field. lesson plans; support materials; curriculum connections on recycling, avoiding food waste; waste auditing; ways to reduce waste at school. 0000010341 00000 n 0000411382 00000 n Lesson Topics: Food waste and the environment. 0000422843 00000 n 0000423851 00000 n 0000005164 00000 n Children will be more likely to try new food when they grow it themselves. 0000415609 00000 n 0000408521 00000 n 0000436219 00000 n Reducing food waste lesson. In order to teach this class, you need to get familiar with thisem… 0000254679 00000 n Recycling & Waste Reduction Lessons/Activities Page Content All lesson plans are in PDF format (unless otherwise noted) and have been reviewed and field tested in formal school classroom settings. 0000436141 00000 n 0000176906 00000 n 0000369110 00000 n 0000407091 00000 n 0000423387 00000 n Lesson Plan - Food Waste - Level 2 “Address the Excess - A Recipe for Cutting Food Waste: Peter Lehner at TEDxManhattan” LEVEL 2!! 0000406613 00000 n 0000005129 00000 n 0000089142 00000 n 0000406135 00000 n 0000366964 00000 n Food Waste Audit (Social Studies) Students will conduct a food waste audit at their school or a similar setting. 0000434844 00000 n Find out about his recyclable house, pop-up cafes and some of his other projects, and hear his big plans for safeguarding our future. 355 0 obj <> endobj xref This page contains Educational Units developed for The Nature of Teaching program. 0000416171 00000 n 0000410903 00000 n Save. 0000008179 00000 n September 5, … 0000431464 00000 n Most materials can be found in the great outdoors or purchased inexpensively at stores in your area. The second half of the class will diagram the steps that food waste goes through after leaving our plates (food disposal). 0000424223 00000 n 0000417585 00000 n {k��8RkhF~���Uz�73�r��~�~�F��4�Ga��Fyz��qC�� ��Rw@??Y�[X^�^�]/�LLUճ&|��? 0000435402 00000 n 0000009559 00000 n 0000408044 00000 n 0000421293 00000 n 0000369769 00000 n 0000367450 00000 n 0000421701 00000 n 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted each year. 0000353582 00000 n 0000426228 00000 n 0000428174 00000 n 0000252497 00000 n 0000431943 00000 n 0000414209 00000 n Lesson Plans. 0000412411 00000 n Instruct students they will be collecting data to learn about their own food waste after a meal. 0000253794 00000 n 0000426716 00000 n 0000366840 00000 n 0000252873 00000 n Disability-related accessibility issue? 0000433475 00000 n 0000415687 00000 n 0000418057 00000 n Using the food we don't eat. Most lessons are K-5, but some include middle school and high school standards, and many can be scaled up. 0000429058 00000 n 0000254960 00000 n 0000416644 00000 n 0000417507 00000 n 0000424709 00000 n 0000426638 00000 n In Australia there has been a trend of throwing out food. YMI's educational outreach programs tap into popular culture to create a dynamic learning experience. Ask these students to diagram all the steps they think occur during the production and distribution phase. 0000413743 00000 n 0000430105 00000 n Each unit contains one or more lesson plans that contain Common Core English/Language Arts, Math, and Next Generation Science Standards. 0000435324 00000 n 0000418540 00000 n 0000413821 00000 n The first lesson of each age group will inform and inspire your learners, the second will have them loving and valuing food, while the third will give them all the practical know-how to hate waste and save food from the bin. 0000407568 00000 n NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas: MS-ESS3.A, MS-ESS3.C In this video, we'll explore some easy ways you can help reduce food waste, like using specialized mobile apps, composting, and making a weekly food menu. 0000367574 00000 n The focus is on raising learners’ awareness of how their actions contribute to this global issue and the impact of wasting food. 0000412880 00000 n The activity is designed 0000413274 00000 n 0000409432 00000 n 0000405545 00000 n 0000415222 00000 n They begin by tracking food waste in the school cafeteria. 17 Anaerobic digestion—Plate to Power! 0000367326 00000 n 0000007408 00000 n 0000425682 00000 n Most materials can be found in the great outdoors or purchased inexpensively at stores in your area. 0000359095 00000 n 0000408999 00000 n Categorize food waste into the They need to categorize if it was avoidable, non-avoidable and potentially avoidable 3. Teacher notes are built right in! 0000428574 00000 n All images and the video used to teach this class are promotional materials produced for the needs of this campaign. A number of lesson plans on food waste covering topics such as dirt, composting, Indigenous“All My Relations”, food waste tracking, food waste reduction. Allrecipes.com: Everyday Leftovers Recipes, Teaching Kids to Waste Less Food: An Educators Guide to Food Waste Ideas, Clean Your Plate! 0000420009 00000 n 0000004940 00000 n 2. 0000409510 00000 n 0000418462 00000 n 0000434922 00000 n Eat. P1–P3 lessons. 0000007562 00000 n 0000004759 00000 n 0000422921 00000 n H�\��n�0E�� Tb13U�����8� �~�ͭZ���'�}s��o��}�F����9�ќ�ئp�o� ��]��i�f�����K=d�.>ܯc���Ϫ��o��:��yX��1. 0000416566 00000 n Each year, the average American family throws away as much as $2,200 worth of uneaten food, and 40% of all food in the U.S. ends up in landfills. 0000406535 00000 n Love Food Hate Waste New Zealand has created four food waste lesson plans that can be used by primary or intermediate schools to explore the issue of food waste. This lesson introduces learners to food waste - a current, real world environmental issue. 0000009154 00000 n 0000408921 00000 n 0000411460 00000 n Please enable scripts and reload this page. �Ĭ� endstream endobj 544 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/Index[67 288]/Length 31/Size 355/Type/XRef/W[1 1 1]>>stream In this lesson students will conduct an investigation of their own trash consumption and become aware of how improperly handled trash impacts the environment. Initiative(s) Food Literacy. 0000011166 00000 n 0000418950 00000 n These resources comprise a set of informative teacher notes (including suggested learning activities) that run alongside a Powerpoint presentation filled with images to facilitate learning. Food Waste. Foresty and Natural Resources, 195 Marstellar Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2053 USA, (765) 494-3568, © document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); Purdue University | An equal access/equal opportunity university | Integrity Statement | Copyright Complaints | Maintained by Agricultural Communication. 0000410981 00000 n Wasted food means a loss of natural resources used for growing, processing, packing, transporting, and marketing as well. 0000417979 00000 n How can they reduce their food waste? 0000414287 00000 n 0000434445 00000 n 0000410022 00000 n Many lessons are currently in Indiana Academic Standards but will be updated by the end of the 2018 calendar year. Resource Type. 0000416093 00000 n 0000410424 00000 n 0000425196 00000 n 0000435663 00000 n 0000254186 00000 n 0000051831 00000 n The Food Waste Issue and Ways to Reduce It LESSON PLAN Food waste is a major issue in developed countries. Trouble with this page? Be a food saving hero; Food transformers; Practical powers; P4–P6 lessons. 0000000016 00000 n Food waste in school 16 What can we do with food waste? 18 Composting and Landfill 19 ‘What does an anaerobic digester do?’ lesson plan and supporting materials 20-24 ‘Burping Bacteria’ activity sheet and teacher notes 25-29 Debate and role play lesson plan and supporting materials 30-33 Text with black boxes within the PDFs are links to supplemental materials. trailer <<104D00E2A4324D7CB6C512BBB39EEF76>]/Prev 1115168/XRefStm 4759>> startxref 0 %%EOF 545 0 obj <>stream 0000426150 00000 n Through the ‘Autopsy of food waste’ lesson you’ll get to grips with the food being wasted during lunchtime at your school and inspire your learners to take the lead in reducing what is thrown away by becoming ‘Waste Warriors’. 0000421215 00000 n 0000409944 00000 n 0000427124 00000 n 0000431065 00000 n Shock spending scandal 0000419028 00000 n The unit plans, called #foodcrisis and Food Waste, have been distributed to over 200 teachers, from Ontario to as far away as Beijing, China and Adelaide, Australia. 0000424787 00000 n Building conceptual knowledge regarding where our waste goes once it is disposed of. 0000422437 00000 n Wasted food means that we waste all of the resources that went into agricultural production, like fertilizer, water, and energy. 0000435741 00000 n 8��\-꯺��B/���9��G��:�&U����C�%��E��N��$D��%�u�t�}��%>�%W�nR_���]$g�-�'������sv˽ 0000427689 00000 n h�|��k�A��Ħ�ՆD�i^$$)Bݨ�� 0000414760 00000 n Student activities including self-guided investigations and activities and more. 0000010455 00000 n 0000424301 00000 n 0000417037 00000 n 0000420336 00000 n 0000429136 00000 n 0000437199 00000 n Then they examine the waste on a larger scale, using multimodal resources and applying metacognitive reading strategies. 0000423773 00000 n 0000419438 00000 n This lesson is based on a campaign Intermarche, a French chain of supermarkets, organized in 2014 to cut down on food waste. Activities: Food Waste Diary Keep a food diary for one week and track your lunch waste: 1. 0000294537 00000 n 0000429621 00000 n Source. 0000405623 00000 n Suitable for both primary and secondary schools, this pack can be used by itself or along with the classroom-based Love Food Hate Waste lessons. 0000413352 00000 n Deep impacts stem from the agricultural resources needed to grow the food in the first place. 0000436615 00000 n /� 0000422107 00000 n This lesson teaches students how food transportation and food miles affect the environment. 0000422029 00000 n This unit contains three lesson plans that will teach students how to reduce food waste by learning more about proper food storage, best-by dates, and ugly foods. Food Systems Lab. Around a billion people don't have enough food to eat, yet we throw away around a third of all the food produced. Students created individual recipes to add to a classroom cookbook for our advocacy project.” – 5th grade teacher. Lesson Plan Description. 0000425274 00000 n 0000427202 00000 n 0000010229 00000 n 355 191 0000253489 00000 n Curricular Connections: Common Core Math: Grades 3-5 Number and Operations in Base Ten “Students tracked food waste, and developed a class recipe using commonly wasted foods. 0000004116 00000 n This unit contains two lessons which cover how land and water resources are used to produce food. Handout with a table where students can write out anything they wasted in the 5 days. ��lq���޿�B6�K;�f��Z�'h�h���u��T!��0_t��'���qߌgJ�#�Dl``s*#`ٯ��eS���e���mo��6����S0���&ɪ���u���Ӝ��G���i�������#����{�ߡ�D �".�C�U�'gFw ? 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